Friday, July 1, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli Troop Redeployment
Discussed at Cabinet Session
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
said that he will convene a
special Cabinet session to
> discuss the redeployment of
the Israel Defense Force in
Lebanon.
Begin made the disclo-
sure at a briefing to the
Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee _
shortly after meeting with
the U.S. special envoy
Philip Habib, who arrived
in Israel Sunday.
Some obServers inter-
preted Habib's visit at this
time as a U.S. effort to head
off any Israeli decision on
redeployment in Lebanon
until after Begin's
scheduled meeting with
President Reagan in Wash-
ington at the end of July.
The U.S. fears a partial
Israeli pullback would be
a signal to Syrian or
Palestine Liberation
Organization units to
move forward, unless the
Lebanese army, backed
by U.S. marines and
other multi-national
force elements, moved
into the vacuum.
But Israeli sources made
it clear that while a Cabinet
discussion might begin this
week, the premier did not
expect the Cabinet to reach
a final decision until after
his talks with Reagan.
Opposition leader Shi-
mon Peres urged Begin to go
ahead with the pullback be-
fore his Washington visit.
"Why drag it out?" Peres
was quoted as saying at the
I committee. "It is a matter of
lives." Begin responded that
the withdrawal was not
necessarily linked to the
timing of his visit to Wash-
ington.
Begin said the Americans
appeared to be coming
around to Israel's assess-
ment that the Syrians have
no intention of cooperating
in an overall withdrawal of
foreign forces from Lebanon
at least for the time being.
Begin said that was the im-
pression he got from Habib.
Other Israeli sources con-
firmed that the U.S. envoy
had been "less optimistic"
than in the past on the pros-
pects of the Syrians eventu-
ally agreeing to pull out.
Habib is in Saudi
Arabia, apparently in a
new American effort to
encourage Arab pressure
on Syria to withdraw.
But another distin-
guished American visitor,
former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, said after
a meeting with Begin that
in the past President Hafez
Assad of Syria had put for-
ward "strong positions"
only to moderate them la-
ter.
Kissinger said he'did not
know if his own negotiating
experience with Damascus
in 1975 was "still relevant."
But he did not preclude the
same process -occurring
now. He expressed "a high
respect for Assad's intelli-
gence and for Syrian
nationalism."
He said it would surely be
"very controversial" if the
Administration were to ask
the Congress for more U.S.
marines in the multina-
tional force, to step into the
areas vacated by Israel in a
partial pullback.
If their deployment were
part of an Israel-Syrian ac-
cord on a demilitarized
zone, "that would be one
thing." But otherwise Con-
gress would likely balk at
introducing American
troops into areas that the
IDF felt were too dangerous
to stay in, Kissinger re-
marked.
Market Blast
Injures Women
SHABAT SHALOM
FROM
GREAT SCOTT
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Two young women were in-
jured, neither of them seri-
ously, when a small explo-
sive device detonated in a
suburban Jerusalem
supermarket Tuesday.
Several Arabs were de-
tained for questioning. The
device was believed to have
been concealed in a loaf of
bread.
The incident was the sec-
ond in Jerusalem this
month. Three weeks ago a
large explosive charge was
discovered near the Old
City walls and safely de-
fused. Jerusalem has been
relatively free from ter-
rorist acts in recent months.
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GENEVA-(JTA) — Egypt
has named a new ambas-
sador to Israel, but he does
not expect to go to Tel Aviv
in the near future.
Ambassador - designate
Omar Sirry, who was in
Geneva this week, said that
despite American pressure,
the Egyptian government
has no intention of sending
an ambassador to Israel as
long as Israeli troops re-•
main in Lebanon without a
timetable for their with-
drawal.
Egypt's first Ambassador
to Israel, Saad Mortada,
was recalled in September
1982 as a demonstration of
Cairo's displeasure over Is-
rael's invasion of Lebanon.
Sirry was selected to replace
Mortada who will soon
reach retirement age.
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